Any fitness trackers not sending my health data to the USA?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33995436
I am looking for a good fitness tracker to start doing cardio in a more measured way.
I was interested in Polar and Oura as EU alternatives (both Finnish companies), but both send data (health data, which is sensitive according to Article 9 of the GDPR) to AWS.
Are you aware of any EU solutions, or at least non-US, Chinese, Russian, or Israeli solutions, that do not send my data to companies in those countries?
I would like to be able to organize something self-hosted, but I don't think I'm capable of doing that yet.
What features are you looking for? What OS? What kind of cardio?
There is gadgetbridge for Android, where you can connect a lot of fitness gadgets to and all your data stays on your smartphone. (Check out supported devices to find which hardware to buy).
Then there is opentracks for outdoor cardio, that can either connect to heart tracking stuff directly (like the polar H10 for example) or get data from gadgetbridge.
In both cases you cut out the official app and thus the cloud, but can use commercial high quality hardware.
There are hundreds of open source fitness related projects and devices that work with them. So you have to be clear about your needs, wants and wishes.
I've been using an Amazfit Band 7 with gadgetbridge for almost a year and it's been great for keeping all my fitness data local - decent battery life (about 2 weeks) and it only cost me like $40 on amazon.
Withings are french
You're probably not gonna find a commercial one that doesn't use AWS, GCP or Azure though
Edit: take a look at the bangle smart watch, and I've just now found out about gadgetbridge that you might want to take a look at too
Banglejs 2
Amazfit Active 2 paired with gadgetbridge.
i think garmin smartwatches keeps data offline. some of them dont even have wifi
So, you're fine with fitness trackers sending data to China, Russia, any company anywhere (because data leaks happen, or fuck it, why should any company have my data).
Or do you want a fitness tracker that simply respects privacy?
They have listed the list of nations they don't trust already
The problem is trust
You must have something really embarrassing happen to you. did you lose something in your anus and have a doctor with a big mouth?
Some of these fitness trackers also track menstruation cycles. Not difficult to see how that’s increasingly a problem in the US. Even if it weren’t, the whole “what do you have to hide?” argument is dumb as fuck.
I assume everyone online is a creepy male. why you have to make this weird.
How about just wanting basic privacy?
It is hard to unshare data after the fact